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Carmen Maura is a Actor Espagnol born on 15 september 1945 at Madrid (Espagne)

Carmen Maura

Carmen Maura
Carmen Maura participated to 55 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 6 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actress

Happiness Is in the Field, 1h46
Directed by Étienne Chatiliez
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma, Carmen Maura, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, François Morel
Roles Dolores Thivart
Rating69% 3.495053.495053.495053.495053.49505
Francis Bergeade, owner of a toilet seats and brushes' factory in Dole, has just turned 65 and his life is a misery. Tax services are harassing him, his snobby wife Nicole despises him, and his daughter whimsically wants to have an expensive wedding. Francis knows only moments of relief while having lunches or dinners in fancy restaurants with his best friend, car dealer Gérard. Stress become too overwhelming and while on a lunch, he suffers an attack from a blocked nerve.
Volver
Volver (2006)
, 2h1
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Assassinat, Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
Roles Irene
Rating75% 3.798883.798883.798883.798883.79888
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas) are sisters who grew up in Alcanfor de las Infantas, a small village in La Mancha, but now both live in Madrid. Their parents died in a tragic fire three years prior to the beginning of the film. The events which occurred on the night of the fire are only gradually revealed, and are central to the plot.
The Women on the 6th Floor, 1h46
Directed by Philippe Le Guay
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Natalia Verbeke, Sandrine Kiberlain, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Audrey Fleurot
Roles Concepcion
Rating70% 3.544243.544243.544243.544243.54424
Set in Paris in the 1960s, the film is a social comedy that pits the propriety of a well-to-do French family with the earthiness and humour of Spanish cleaning ladies who work in their apartment building. It follows Monsieur Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), an unadventurous stockbroker, as he befriends the Spanish maids who live on the top floor of his building. Maria (Natalia Verbeke), his new maid, introduces him to her compatriots and their simple but happy lives animated by friendship and folklore, in contrast to the relative emotional austerity of his own life. Slowly he recovers his joie de vivre by tasting life's simple pleasures; when his wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) falsely accuses him of having an affair he moves into an empty room in the servants' quarters upstairs, the first time he has had a bedroom of his own.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1h28
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about television, Films about terrorism, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Chus Lampreave
Roles Pepa
Rating74% 3.7489753.7489753.7489753.7489753.748975
The film plot takes its starting point from the French play The Human Voice (La Voix humaine, 1930) by Jean Cocteau where a desperate woman tries to avoid being dumped by her lover through a series of phone calls. In the film TV actress Pepa Marcos (Carmen Maura) is depressed and taking sleeping pills because her boyfriend Iván (Fernando Guillén) has just left her. Both she and Iván work as voice-over actors who dub foreign films, notably Johnny Guitar with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden. The voice he uses to sweet-talk her (and many other women) is the same one he uses in his work. He is about to leave on a trip and has asked Pepa to pack his things in a suitcase that he will pick up later.
Paulette
Paulette (2013)
, 1h27
Directed by Jérôme Enrico
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes La banlieue française, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about racism, Gangster films
Actors Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin, André Penvern, Axelle Laffont
Roles Maria
Rating65% 3.2947053.2947053.2947053.2947053.294705
Paulette and her late husband had a brasserie. Now the xenophobic old lady lives alone in a banlieue and her pension is too small to get along. In the course of a sequestration most of her furniture and also her TV set are seized. Moreover the landline is cut off because of overdue bills. Paulette is desperate to earn money somehow and she hears there is much money to be made in dealing cannabis. She visits a known criminal named Vito in her area and asks him for work. He commissions her eventually to sell his cannabis. Yet the other dealers don't put up with her unexpected success. They beat her up and rob her. Again she is desperate because she has to deliver a certain amount of money to Vito. Instead of just distributing sheer cannabis she starts to sell cakes and biscuits spiced with cannabis. Soon there is a huge demand for her elaborate pastries. Vito's boss gets enthusiastic about her success and plans to sell her biscuits to pupils. When she refuses to support this idea, the villain kidnaps Paulette's grandson. She starts a spectacular attempt to free him but in the end it is her son-in-law Ousmane who saves the day. Finally she leaves France and opens a cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, hereby becoming herself the kind of person she used to dislike: an emigrant.
Le Mac
Le Mac (2010)
, 1h30
Directed by Pascal Bourdiaux
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors José Garcia, Gilbert Melki, Carmen Maura, Arsène Mosca, Catalina Denis, Alain Fromager
Roles La mère
Rating59% 2.9922.9922.9922.9922.992
Gilbert Chapelle est un employé de banque parisien sans histoire. À la suite d'un meurtre accidentel (qui était une mise en scène), il est entraîné par la police à se faire passer pour son frère jumeau Ace, un proxénète du milieu marseillais, il doit infiltrer un coup que son boss Mendès prépare avec un colombien dit « le Condor », et aussi rencontrer sa... famille.